On the evening of 28 April, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, strongly condemned the decision of the Iranian Supreme Court on 26 April to uphold the death sentence against Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian national.
The 68-year-old journalist and software engineer was sentenced to death on 21 February after being accused of espionage and of participating in an attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people in April 2008.